Pro-WikiLeaks Amazon, Visa website hackers arrested

An unaffiliated group of pro-WikiLeaks hackers calling itself “Anoymous” finds itself short a few member this evening as multiple alleged culprits were arrested on Thursday in the U.K. The BBC reports that five men were arrested in a series of raids, and they are being held in various locations across England. Allegations against the men are described as “recent and ongoing attacks by an online group that calls itself ‘Anonymous’.” The two adults and three teenagers were allegedly involved with a series ofDDoS attacks carried out last year, aimed at various websites the group felt stood in opposition of notorious news agency WikiLeaks and its famed leader Julian Assange. Targets included websites belonging to Amazon, Visa, Mastercard and Paypal. This is not the first time arrests have been made in connection with Anonymous’ attacks; two Dutch teenagers allegedly involved with the group were arrested last year, but charges were never formally filed against them.

Anonymous, great job. Our nation shouldn’t hold such grand secrets that the time someone publishes anything it’s all the sudden an issue of national security. Visa, Amazon, Paypal and friends got what they deserved, not serving a customer. Would you be pissed if businesses you used on a day to day basis just stopped serving you for no valid reason?

Anonymous

Tell Wikileaks to shut the hell up until they figure out what really happened on 9/11 or the Bush Kerry election.. Leaking bullshyt is just making it that much tougher to get the real truth… If your “Headliner” is Hillary Clinton asks aides to collect information while abroad… You need to get a real job and wait til something that matters comes along.. I would have cut business ties with those idiots too, they leaked a bunch of shyt we already knew and nothing that can be used to justify their actions..

Sasak

boot-lickin dick suck

Bigbudha

“In order to have democracy blood should flow every 20 years.” Benjamin Franklin

The truth will always be surprised by our govt.

In the USA the citizens fear the govt!
In Europe the govt fear the citizens.

Bigbudha

Suppress not surprised that was autocorrect. Lol

http://dakuten.fr dakuten

LOL “In Europe the govt fear the citizens”. Looks like you’ve never been in Europe ! Our society is more advanced than the USA one because we fear our government for just causes, not for bad words said on TV. In our countries, religion is no more, and that’s why we have real democracies, instead of a 2-party pseudo-democracy which hides all the truth its people should know to reign on the world and enslaves the more poor countries. We’re not an idiot speaking-too-much-for-nothing society, we’re smarter than you. And we’re not frightened by our government, we only hate it, whatever its colour is. (Especially, us, French people :D). Oh, and btw, we haven’t this patriotism you USAmericans have. We don’t just care about our nation, we care about the world and all the people whom suffer. (Another proof that we’re smarter (and unpretentious :D ))

Ghz

You’re an idiot. I see just as much jingoism from Europeans and all people as happens in America. Your comment is proof that jingoism is alive and well in Europe. Just because the US is the new empire, doesn’t mean you can escape your history of oppression of the world’s population. Even with a US empire, who the hell do you think is the current oppressor of the world? European-Americans. Don’t be a dumbass.

Anonymous

Don’t feed the trolls.

http://dakuten.fr dakuten

Jingoism ? Your learnt me a new word !
1. It’s not Jingoism, it’s simple and basic anti-americanism.
2.USA aren’t the new Empire. India, China, and maybe the Arab (Arab, not Muslim) World are the new Empires.
3.History of oppresion ? LMAO !! We, or at least we, the french people, HAVE INVENTED the “concept” (We’ve just stolen all that from greek philosophers, but it don’t matter :D) of liberty, free-speech, Universal suffrage etc .. in the modern world with the Enlightement Century, and our revolution, which was one the first. You, USAmericans, have invented lobbies and unregulated economy.
4. Current oppressors of the world are the USA and China. Both with their economy. Our European governments, just follow what Clinton, Bush, and Obama (all right-wing governments as seen from europe) told them to do.

Ghz

“It’s not Jingoism, it’s simple and basic anti-americanism” Oh, you mean old fashion bigotry. Ok, I see the difference. /s

Tell your government to put an end to witchcraft in your psychology. Tell them to stop segregating the Arab and Romani people and denying them employment.

You are so stupid. Judging from your picture, my guess is that I lived longer in France than you have been alive.

Ghz

and our revolution, was one the first

Glad we inspired you. However, your revolution turned into a tyranny with your leader declaring himself emperor and trying to concur Europe by attacking France’s neighbors and setting up a new class of people. I wouldn’t brag too much about your “revolution”.

Ghz

So, you blame the discrimination in your own country against the disabled, the Arab and the Romani on American’s. Well, you are certainly feeding into a stereotype of the French, can’t stand on their own or make their own decisions. Just puppets of other countries.

by the way, you can thank the British, the Americans and the Russians for being able to speak French today you frog. Otherwise, you’d be speaking German.

Stop selling nuke technology, stop packing up autistic children with ice blankets and declaring that it will cure them and get out of 19th century freudian psychology.

Saska

yeah, I think Europe may just be a scam democracy to counter America’s true democracy (now deceased) in case they ever got too far ahead and free. Who knows? Maybe they’re really all just experiments. I want a space ship. I’d take as many people as possible with me if I had one.

Anonymous

You Europeans have always looked down your noses at us Americans. Especially you French. I have an idea. You care about the world?? How noble. Go tell that to the people of Gabon.

http://dakuten.fr dakuten

Easy to say. We’ve (I write as a Frenchman, not a European Citizen) been, during the past centuries, colonist of a major part of the west Africa, and, presently, in contrast of other countries, can’t really react : the people of that countries could think we’re going to re-colonise them ! For instance, we’ve been late to answer to Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali that we support the Tunisian people , though the french people supported them. For the Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast maybe in English), we’d love to free Alassane Ouattara and make his way to the power, but, we can’t kind of re-colonise them ! It’s easier for us to say what we think about Egypt, because it was the UK which colonised them. And so, we said what we have to say. For the Gabon, we say what we have to say, but, as said before, it’s hard to act. At least, our Government. But, again, you can’t rely on what Sarközy and our gouvernment say, they’re all cunts, and Sarközy is disapproved by more than 60% of the french population. They’re slow, but the french pop. is for the democracy, and for the liberty of nations !

Anonymous

Hilarious. Call us when you start killing each other by the millions. Again. Funny how we’re the uneducated rubes, but you’re always the ones lining up behind some fascist or communist mass murderer.

http://dakuten.fr dakuten

Yeah, during the 20th century. That’s why we changed. And you’re the ones allowing free selling of weapons so that people could kill a lot of people.

Anonymous

Yeah, sure you’ve changed. We’ll see.

As for selling weapons to unsavory parties, that’s pretty rich coming from a Frenchman.

ghz

@dakuten

Are you so ignorant that you don’t know that your government sells arms to Iran where they stone people to death for adultery or that your country contributes technology to N. Korea? How about how they serve as rendition repositories for the CIA? Did you know that? Idiot.

Anonymous

Let’s not forget which country gave nukes to Israel (hint: between the US and France, it wasn’t the US).

http://dakuten.fr dakuten

WTF with weapons ? Where do we sell weapons to unsavory parties ??

http://dakuten.fr dakuten

No, I didn’t know that France was selling arms to Iran and contributing technology to N.Korea, they didn’t writed about this in press nor on TV. But about the CIA, it’s a bit obvious, we’re just slaves of the USA.

Mycoutryharderthanyours

Till you need help, then you come running to the Patriotic, 2-party pseudo-democracy, enslaved society, gov’t to bail you out or protect you. Smarter, naw, just softer. We’ll have you when we want you.

ghz

Want to brag on the French and their enlightenment? Why are you people still stuck in the 19th century and Freudian concepts? Your doctors perform medieval practices on disabled children like autistics where you wrap them in cold blankets filled with ice and expect that is going to cure them of their autism. Much of your psychiatry is trapped in witch craft and voodoo thinking. You continually hurt and surpress the Arab and Romani populations in your country. You drug up autistic people. You know of Sandrine Bonnaire? Check out her documentary of French psychology. Your nation continues to trample on the minorities in your own country, don’t give the disabled any chance at schooling, shut them out in institutions. I know a lot about French culture and history. I lived there for 20 years.

http://dakuten.fr dakuten

About Arab and Romani people, I have to say that the people largely disapprove what the government is doing to them : just read the french press. All the rest, I agree, it’s the result of amercanised UMP-RPR governments wich have the power since a too much long time.

Sean

Arrogance has been the downfall of many great societies.

Sean

Also I seem to remember the French getting their asses handed to them in WWII… This is why no one likes the French.

http://rmbo47.myopenid.com/ rmbo47

Uncle Otto knew how to handle you Frenchies. Just ask the fine folks of Oradour. Oh, wait. You can’t. Otto saw to that!

Anonymous

I didn’t contribute to, share or download the leaks because I know what our governments are capable of: retroactively charging people with supporting a terrorist organization if they choose to label it as such. The laws and behavior of our supposedly democratic govs more and more have a “chilling effect” on our speech, as SCOTUS has phrased it. However, the DDOS attacks are open game for prosecution imo. We need to show our disapproval in ways that don’t directly effect legitimate business and innocent folks. I cancelled my paypal and spoke out. Is more needed, maybe so. With all that said, I hardly think these folks are part of Anonymous, certainly not the savy part.

Ememota

That’s really funny Europeans talking rubbish about the Amercincas and vice-versa. The first one had pillage the world yestarday and keep o doing today and the second on join the party nowdays. Wake up everyone look at yourselves.

Ghz

That was exactly my point. No group of people can claim they are “innocent” of oppressing another group of people in their histories. Every civilization has committed aggression.

Anonymous

Really and like it’s even relevant how does your govt’s history equate to you being a better person?

http://rmbo47.myopenid.com/ rmbo47

Y’all ain’t so “anonymous” now, huh bitches?

Newtonj

My kids have iPods and I’m not a pervert who needs porn. I get what I need from my wife. Oh yah so unlike the rest of you. I am happy the app store is closed to smutt. And if you want it the www is open for the rest of you perva who police to jack off to a woman who would never ever even talk to you. Lol!!!!!

Coastalmikey

United States has never been a democracy nor will it be. It is set up as a republic, a democratic republic as it is, it is not a democracy.